Comrade Chkalov Crosses the North Pole

Name: Comrade Chkalov Crosses the North Pole
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1990
Duration: 24 min
Cast: Aleksandr Zavyalov, Semyon Furman, Viktor Bychkov, Vladimir Baranov

1990

24min

Comedy

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Overview

A satiric comedy which dissects the iconography of the 'Soviet Hero'. Original footage of a propaganda film from 1941 is the starting point for this parody of the ideological cliches of Soviet cinema. It follows the story of a Russian crew across the North Pole.